Many of these same companies have donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to sitting members of Congress, according to an ...

Pennsylvania requires unanimous approval from a five-member pardon board before people incarcerated on life sentences can ask ...

Washington previously sued GEO Group for allegedly violating the state minimum wage law by paying detainee workers $1 a day.

Two neighbor kids bang on Sherry Davis’s door. They’ve seen her come home and know she can be counted on for handing out the little packs of Starburst she keeps nearby. Outside, the dingy ...

This story is being co-published by In These Times and The Appeal. Leading for-profit prison companies donated about half a million dollars to Republican members of Congress currently in office, and ...

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) has opened an internal affairs investigation into an Aug. 2 use-of-force incident at the Central California Women’s Facility (CCWF), ...

America’s criminal system has become one of the country’s largest mental health service providers, leaving the nation’s jails and prisons overfilled with people experiencing severe mental disorders, ...

The Appeal has created the first national database of prison commissary lists. Using the tool below, you can access full lists from the vast majority of U.S. states and see prices for many products ...

Maria Montalvo was convicted of her children's murders in 1996. Her attorneys say it was based on now-discredited forensic testimony.

White voices and victims dominate the genre, which can skew the perception of what constitutes a crime. I called Lowery not long ago to talk about that whiteness, which swamps the genre across books, ...

The Department of Justice has terminated all funding for the National Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) Resource Center, according to a letter from the National PREA Resource Center obtained by The ...